From Here to Eternity, (Paperback)

from pantopicon

A deeply profound reading experience, and investigation into self and responsibility, and the tropes of alienation that more generally mark post-war American fiction. Jones' characters are stubborn...

from baswood

A doorstop (nearly 1000 pages) published in 1951 tells the fictional story from the inside of a number of enlisted men of an infantry division of the United States Army posted in Hawaii in 1941 tak...

from anneearney

Military families, soldiers, and those they come in contact with on Hawaii right before World War II starts - not my usual reading choice of subject, but I read Kaylee Jones' autobiography and that...

from deckehoe

This is a real slow-burner. I read The Thin Red Line a number of years ago and half-expected a dramatic tale of infantrymen with the backdrop of the bombing of Pearl Harbour. However, the first Jap...

from DinadansFriend

A very good novel indeed. I am surprised that so few Library Thingers possess a copy. The story of a soldier who wants to do a simple hitch in the army. He falls afoul of military politics, and the...